Aerial convoy from the Palace: Erdoğan traveled to the US with 5 planes
It has emerged that AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan traveled to the US for the NATO Summit with his delegation using 5 planes.
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AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the Meeting of Allied and Partner Heads of State and Government held within the scope of the NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government in Washington, the capital of the US.
ERDOĞAN TRAVELED TO THE US WITH 5 PLANES
Three days before the summit, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş traveled to the US with his delegation on a private plane to attend the NATO Speakers' Summit. While Erdoğan traveled to the meeting on the private Airbus 330-200 type plane named TC-TUR, 4 other planes accompanied the journey.
'IT IS NOT EASY TO BE A WORLD LEADER'
İYİ Party Group Deputy Chairman Turhan Çömez highlighted that Erdoğan traveled to the US with 5 planes, stating, “One for himself, one for his delegation, one for his staff and equipment, and one for his armored vehicles. There is one more, which went ahead to meet him. This time they created a convoy in the air,” he said. Noting that the leaders of NATO's two new members, Sweden and Finland, traveled to the US on the same plane, Çömez added, “The leaders of neighboring Sweden and Finland traveled to the US together on a small plane to keep costs down. But our President goes with 5 planes. Well, it is not easy to be a world leader…”
??One for himself.
— Turhan Çömez (@ComezTurhan) July 10, 2024
??One for his delegation.
??One for his staff and equipment.
??And one for his armored vehicles.
??There is one more, which went ahead to meet him.
??So 5 in total.
????????The two new members, Sweden and Finland, traveled together on a small plane to keep it cheap… pic.twitter.com/59kViSYGMv
WHO WAS IN THE DELEGATION?
The delegation that traveled to the US with Erdoğan included Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan, Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler, MIT President İbrahim Kalın, Chief of Cabinet Hasan Doğan, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the President Çağatay Kılıç, President of Defense Industries Haluk Görgün, Deputy Director of Communications of the Presidency Çağatay Özdemir, and AKP Deputy Chairman Çiğdem Karaaslan.